Portal:University of Houston/Selected biography/1

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Margaret Spellings is the 8th and current Secretary of Education under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. She is the first mother of school-aged children to serve as Education Secretary, and the second woman to serve as Education Secretary. She was one of the principal authors of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that aimed at reforming primary and secondary education. In 2005, she convened a Commission on the Future of Higher Education to recommend reform at the post-secondary level. Spellings is a 1979 graduate of the University of Houston, and in 2006 received an honorary doctorate from the university. (more...)